TOSSED Synonyms: 150 Similar and Opposite Words

tossed

verb

past tense of toss

as in lurched

to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions the boat tossed to and fro in the heavy seas

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as in jerked

to make jerky or restless movements tossed and turned in bed all night, unable to sleep in the heat

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as in threw

to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm toss that football over here

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as in discarded

to get rid of as useless or unwanted we need to go through the basement and toss whatever we don't use

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Recent Examples of tossed The Astros nearly scored the go-ahead run when Yordan Alvarez tried to score on an overthrow, but Bachman was backing up the plate and tossed the ball to catcher Logan O’Hoppe in time to get him. —

Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 11 June 2026 If the toys aren’t in use or have seen their fair share of play, they can be tossed. —

Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 10 June 2026 Maye tossed eight interceptions and fumbled eight times last season. —

Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 10 June 2026 McGovern testified that Sacramento officers later recovered a Glock 19 handgun, which prosecutors allege was tossed by Smiley Martin from the scene. —

Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 9 June 2026 Dustin May tossed six solid innings to snap a seven-start winless streak for the Cardinals, who have won five straight games — one shy of their season high. —

CBS News, 9 June 2026 His olive-green newsboy cap, with a silver thunderbird pin on its peak, is tossed on the bed. —

Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2026 Over in the next aisle, Gifty Anderson, who typically buys bales from Canada and the United Kingdom, held up a dress smeared with body makeup and tossed it aside without a second thought. —

Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 8 June 2026 Eleven people were injured with six of them sent to hospital when a bouncy castle and a tent were tossed by high winds on May 31 at Parc Ouellet in LaSalle, a borough in southwest Montreal, emergency medical services said. —

ABC News, 3 June 2026

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As the opening ceremony began with a flurry of speeches, the bus carrying Team Zambia lurched to a stop by the side of the road in southern Zimbabwe, 200 miles away.

— Ryan Lenora Brown, NPR, 14 June 2026
In a December 2024 crash, a bus lurched onto a sidewalk outside Curley K-8 School in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood.

— Willoughby Mariano, ProPublica, 8 June 2026